Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Privet and yew combine in an effective two-tone design |
| 2 | Whereas Serena is concerned to domesticate her problems , Stella consciously strives to exaggerate her own eccentricity , yet her resilience and the regularity of her yo-yo-like existence testify to an underlying solidity . |
| 3 | The family says the seats are lovely and comfy , I say the driving position is good and commanding and the light , quick steering and instant V8 torque make for an effortless drive . |
| 4 | The significant point to emerge from Zeki 's work is that a perceptual phenomenon once believed to be the result of high level cognitive processing now turns out to have a single cell correlate at an early stage in the visual pathways . |
| 5 | Even marginal victory had never entered her mind save as an impossible dream . |
| 6 | 25TH OF May are enough to make the most rabid Trot of a pop fan feel like an enemy of the people worthy of a vicious kneecapping , since their political stance is laudable to the n th degree in such grim times as these . |
| 7 | It sometimes happens that the wrong is so closely connected with a contract that the enforcement of liability for the wrong would in effect amount to an enforcement of the contract . |
| 8 | The signals from the switch go to an inverting DC coupled operational amplifier with lowpass filter characteristics through the addition of a capacitor in parallel with the feedback resistor . |
| 9 | What does the County Council mean by an integrated er and balanced community ? |
| 10 | The expenditure decisions of the private sector depend upon an extensive array of variables — the rate of interest , the real wage rate , the realized level of income , etc . |
| 11 | In addition to these buildings , the main exhibits in the outdoor museum consist of an original National Schoolhouse , a Presbyterian Meeting House , Blacksmith 's Forge and Weaver 's Cottage in the Old World side of the Park and a Log Cabin , Pennsylvania Farmhouse and Log Barn in the New World area . |
| 12 | Here , at a round table , Christian Lacroix was seated with his wife , Sylvie Guillem ( now changed into a ballgown of great splendour and so contrived , with such shortness at front and fullness at back , as to make the wearer look like an emu ) , and a number of stock Parisian luminaries , like Guy and Marie-Hélène de Rothschild . |
| 13 | A checker that did not have wether in its lexicon would flag wether as an error ( correctly or not ) , but one with a comprehensive dictionary would fail to do so . |
| 14 | The sense of relief , and the newfound power , of a queen who has successfully produced a healthy boy emerge in an anecdote told by Charles himself over forty years later : " In the very hour of my birth , my mother Judith sent a ring to Ebbo [ archbishop of Rheims ] , asking him , since he was an archbishop , to pray for the newborn baby . |
| 15 | The Minister cannnot intervene in an intervention . |
| 16 | Sound feminist argument usually means making the nearest male look like an idiot , which in Ellen 's case was not a very demanding task . |
| 17 | No , you 're just a pathetic monomaniac who 's lived too long and has become obsessed with the idea of making the entire planet suffer for an ancient wrong that was perpetrated by a mindless minority ! ’ |
| 18 | Both music and drama unfold with an inexorable concentration to the riotously naked , yet scrupulously choreographed mania of the orgiastic final scene . |
| 19 | CREAMING JESUS , HEADCLEANER , FOREHEADS IN A FISHTANK appear at an Anti-Racist-Action benefit show at London 's Powerhaus on August 27 , tickets priced £4 each . |
| 20 | Unless the board find that one or more of the prescribed grounds of refusal apply to an application , they must grant it . |
| 21 | Couplet comprising clay/calcite/silt laminae and representing 6,000 years of deposition occur in an equivalent sequence from northeast Angola . |
| 22 | Mr A is 75 and he and his wife live in an upstairs flat . |
| 23 | Will my right hon. Friend arrange for an early debate on the future of grant-maintained schools ? |
| 24 | Will my right hon. Friend arrange for an early debate next week on the principle and number of live animal exports which , we hear , have reached record levels in the past year ? |
| 25 | ‘ Why on earth should I and people like me who actually want to put the needs of the people of the Mersey Region before the demands of a bankrupt ideology believe for an instant that your Regional Health Authority is in the slightest bit interested in our views ? ’ |
| 26 | It is quite an elaborate item : Youth and Age sit on an oval cartouche flanked by Time and Eternity . |
| 27 | Only with the more entrepreneurial activities of the lower class — from bookmaking to thieving — did the gospel of urban moralizing combine with an economic imperative . |
| 28 | Although she might have been wise to add that even the life of a Television Presenter 2nd Class is a doddle compared to packing frozen peas , doing a 12-hour nursing shift in an understaffed hospital ward or for that matter being married to David Mellor . |
| 29 | Hereford 's 5 month wait for an away win in the league came to an end at Spotland . |
| 30 | ‘ I shall have to make my encounter with the captain look like an accident . |